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Title: Taking bricks to the new building of the school, South Africa East
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Kaffer-Mädchen beim Ziegeltragen zum Schulneubau in Tinana" ("Kaffir girls taking bricks to the new building of the school in Tinana"). Four girls in dresses standing at a mountain side, carrying bricks on their heads.
Gerhard Dahl Elmo Knudsen, born in 1905 in Vejle (Denmark), worked as a missionary in South Africa East (Baziya, Tinana) from 1932 till 1940. In 1933 he married Martha Schmolke in Mvenyane. From 1940 till 1957 he worked as a missionary in the Southern Highlands in Tanganyika. In 1946 he married Judith Mogensen. He died in 1980 in Christansfeld.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints
4.1 x 5.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m16051 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10365
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m16051
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-8-10365.jpg
Subject: Building materials
School buildings
General views
Place: Africa
South Africa
Unknown
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76
two copies exist

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